{"product_id":"girl-9781635421019","title":"Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, \"No. I have two daughters.\" When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamille Laurens\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning French novelist and essayist. She received the Prix Femina, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, in 2000 for \u003ci\u003eDans ces bras-là\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in the United States as \u003ci\u003eIn His Arms\u003c\/i\u003e in 2004. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eWho You Think I Am\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2018). She lives in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdriana Hunter \u003c\/b\u003estudied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's \u003ci\u003eThe Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and Hervé Le Tellier's \u003ci\u003eThe Anomaly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEléctrico W\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50450020499730,"sku":"9781635421019","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01ed6aa4-abd4-4e9b-b11c-c2b6fdf21afd.jpg?v=1729749085","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-9781635421019","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}